Paris 1920s

"Toute mon admiration au grand artiste Abbé." 

– Mistinguett, 1925

  • "I have never yet known an actor or actress who was bored with life, and I’ve known a lot of them. It keeps me on my toes to be mixed up with them. I am not an actor. I am, in a way, an outsider. But I’ve seen too much of their life to stay away from it. I haven’t been raised in tranquil waters, and I can’t swim unless there are breakers over my head."

    — James Abbe, Paris, 1928

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James Abbe

"During the 1920s and 1930s, James Abbe was among the best-known and most-widely published photographers on the international scene. Prolifically photographing the leading luminaries of the era, Abbe was central to the development of the concept of media-induced celebrity." From James Abbe: Photographer, forward by Brooks Johnson, Chrysler Museum of Art, 2000

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Traveling Exhibition: An Age of Change

Exhibit Envoy provides institutions with diverse and meaningful traveling exhibitions to strengthen their communities. Through the lens of American photographer James Abbe, “An Age of Change” highlights how American people and ideals transformed over the first half of the twentieth century.

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